Jackson Allegedly Offered $800,000 For Meds
The King of Pop had a mighty addiction to drugs, if reports coming today from a British doctor are true. The pill-popping singer allegedly offered Dr. Susan Etok $800,000 in exchange for a laundry list of drugs, including Propofol and Demerol. This conversation took place while Jackson was prepping for the grueling 50-show concert series at the O2 Arena. According to this piece by the Houston Chronicle, Jackson pleaded with the doctor for meds, and when she refused, the late singer claimed that he would find someone else to help him. Was he referring to Dr. Conrad Murray?
Jackson, who was due to play at London’s O2 Arena, allegedly begged British medic, Dr Susan Etok, to get hold of a list of drugs, including powerful painkillers Diprivan (Propofol) and Demerol, in the U.K. because he “couldn’t trust” doctors in America.She tells Britain’s Sunday Mirror newspaper, “He kept saying, ‘Are you going to do it for me, you are going to do it for me, aren’t you?’ He was desperate, like a child begging his mum for sweets. Then he said, ‘I don’t care what it takes, I don’t care how much money it takes – if it costs half a million, that’s fine.’
“Then he said there were medications he took in the States that he needed. He said the names but they didn’t mean much to me. The one name I recognised was Diprivan. I knew it was something to do with anaesthetics and thought that seemed strange. But Michael kept saying, ‘They’re just routine’.”
Erok emailed Jackson to tell him that she couldn’t help him – he replied five days later saying he would find an alternative way of getting hold of the medication.
She adds, “He told me not to worry – he would get someone else to help out.”(More here.)